Saturday, January 08, 2000
New school found for boy who sued
BY TERRY FLYNN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
BELLEVUE — A Bellevue eighth grader who sued the school system after he was refused readmittance to Bellevue High School following a six-week absence will begin classes at an alternative school in Newport next week.
Attorneys for the Bellevue Independent School System and the boy's attorney were in Judge William Wehr's Campbell Circuit Court Fridaymorning and announced agreement on an order that will send him back to class. Judge Wehr approved the order.
The 13-year-old boy, identified in the suit as A.F.W., was out of school from Oct. 21 until about Dec. 1, apparently as the result of conduct in the community that was not connected to the school. Authorities would not disclose the conduct.
When his mother brought him back to school in early December, she was told he could not be readmitted to class. According to the suit, filed Tuesday, Bellevue school officials offered the alternative of enrollment in a day treatment center operated by the Department of Juvenile Justice.
Attorney Kim Brooks, rep resenting the boy and his mother for the Children's Law Center, said the day treatment facility was not acceptable.
“This is a facility that deals with severe discipline problems,” she said Friday. “There was no basis on the part of the school system for any disciplinary action. Nothing had happened in the school, and there was no hearing prior to his being refused admission.”
The boy, who was temporarily removed from his home in October but is now back with his mother, will attend the Northern Kentucky Learning Academy program in Newport, starting no later than Jan. 13.
The Learning Academy, in the Newport Middle School complex at 8th and Columbia streets, serves students from eight school districts who have had behavior, attendance or academic problems at their own schools.
“This is a program that both (the boy) and his mother are interested in having him attend,” Ms. Brooks said. “He really wants to go back to school.”
Attempts to reach Bellevue Schools Superintendent Ora Cobb Friday for comment on the agreement order were unsuccessful.
Ms. Brooks said that while the boy will now be attending school, the main body of the lawsuit seeking his return to Bellevue High School has not been dismissed.
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